Richard Beard

Richard Beard is the author of five critically acclaimed novels: X20, Damascus, The Cartoonist, Dry Bones, and Lazarus Is Dead, and three works of non-fiction: Muddied Oafs, How To Beat the Australians and Becoming Drusilla. He is Director of the National Academy of Writing in London. He also made the shortlist for the Goldsmiths Prize 2015 with his title Acts of the Assassins. His book, The Day That Went Missing (Vintage), has been awarded the 2018 PEN/Ackerley Prize for a work of memoir or autobiography.